Signal failure south of Fulda. Looks like I could miss the event in Mons I’m organising 😭
https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1601427369192935424
Delays in my favour. Maybe? S-Bahn to FFM Flughafen. Get a late running ICE to Köln Messe/Deutz there. Then try to blag my way onto a Thalys Köln Hbf to Bruxelles? It’s a long shot but it might work… 
ICE 612 Frankfurt Flughafen to Köln Messe/Deutz.
This is why accurate live running data in apps matters. Were this not running 10 min late I’d not have caught it… but live data allowed me to plan a connection that’d otherwise not work
This is why accurate live running data in apps matters. Were this not running 10 min late I’d not have caught it… but live data allowed me to plan a connection that’d otherwise not work
S-Bahn across the Hohenzollernbrücke. Railteam stamp from the ticket office. And luckily the Thalys towards Brussels has spare seats. Phew 😥 By some incredible stroke of luck I’m back on schedule, just about - if I now route via Bruxelles instead of Namur
And please note: I simply got lucky here. The Thalys wasn’t full. These are the times when compulsory reservation is a mess - when your travel is disrupted, but you need to get to your destination and would stand if you had to. In a ICE you can, a Thalys or TGV you normally can’t
And the Thalys train manager is saying to a passenger - who he’s fining because she has a ICE ticket - that Thalys is “privé” - private. This is a flat out lie. SNCF is the main owner, with NS and SNCB in it too. It’s not private. It’s a malevolent state operator.
OUCH. The passenger just got charged 160 Euro. That’s nasty from the train manager. If the passenger got a Railteam stamp she’d have payed nothing. Theoretically the extra ticket will be reimbursed by DB he says. The train manager is… a bit off here.
And don’t get me wrong: I understand why Thalys is annoyed when DB ICEs Frankfurt-Brussels break down and Thalys picks up the slack. But as a passenger you’re still screwed unless you know how to be a pain and get your Railteam rights.
🎉 So it looks like it’s going to work!
It’s taken 6 trains rather than the 3 on my ticket. It has involved re-routing via Frankfurt and Brussels, rather than Hannover and Namur. But I’ll be in Mons 🇧🇪 for the funeral for the train as planned! 💪
It’s taken 6 trains rather than the 3 on my ticket. It has involved re-routing via Frankfurt and Brussels, rather than Hannover and Namur. But I’ll be in Mons 🇧🇪 for the funeral for the train as planned! 💪
Bruxelles Midi tristesse. But just 1 more train to Mons now…
And here’s the train to Mons from Brussels. So glad this worked. And @fuenareva has collected the wreath already.
The funeral for the final Mons 🇧🇪 - Aulnoye-Aymeries 🇫🇷 #CrossBorderRail train is coming up shortly!
The funeral for the final Mons 🇧🇪 - Aulnoye-Aymeries 🇫🇷 #CrossBorderRail train is coming up shortly!
Final train of the day. Aulnoye - Maubeuge. 11 mins of retro Corail.
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